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Brief author info: Philip Rieff (1922-2006) American sociologist and writer.

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Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

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Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

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Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

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Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

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Scholarship is polite argument.

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